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Japan

• The US asks Japan to pay $8 billion for US forces deployed in Japan. [Link]        Perhaps running their own military would be cheaper. Okinawans certainly wouldn’t mind seeing the back of US.

North Korea

• The US and South Korea postponed upcoming wargames. [Link]

Can’t right. Makes too much sense.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news-roundup/news-roundup-11-18-19/

Kyle Anzalone

US News

• A man in Georgia was executed. The state refused to test DNA his lawyers’ claim would clear him of the murder. [Link]
• The 11th Circuit of Appeals rules that distributing food in public is protected by the First Amendment. The ruling comes over a Florida group suing after being arrested for giving food to the homeless. [Link]
• Amazon will protest the Pentagon awarding the Penton’s cloud contract – JEDI – to Microsoft. [Link]
• Explosives used at Fort Jackson are contaminating the groundwater. [Link]
• Trump pardons two convicted war criminals and restores the rank of another man, who was demoted after committing war crimes but was not convicted in court. [Link]

Bolivia

• Bolivia expels Venezuelan diplomats and Cuban doctors alleging they were fueling protests. [Link]

Ukraine

• Russia will return three ships to Ukraine. Russia seized the ships after the Ukrainian ships entered Russian waters without permission. [Link]

North Korea

• The US and South Korea postponed upcoming wargames. [Link]
• Trump tweets at Kim Jong-un telling him to make a deal soon. [Link]
• North Korea says it will not engage in talks with the US unless the US hostile policy is on the agenda. [Link]

Japan

• The US asks Japan to pay $8 billion for US forces deployed in Japan. [Link]

Middle East

• Protest breakout in Iran over rising fuel prices. At least one person has died during protests. [Link]
• Turkey says Syria Kurds killed 10 people with a car bomb in a Turkish controlled in northern Syria. [Link]
• Russia announces it has taken control of a former-US base in northern Syria. [Link]
• A bomb exploded in Baghdad, killing two people. [Link]